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invented a new and useful Improvement in U ITE STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM M. EOOLES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO APPLETON S. BRIDGESS, OF SAME PLACE.

TOBACCO-PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375.140, dated December 20, 1887.

Application filed August- 29, 1887. Serial No. 248,916. (No morlel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. EOCLES, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis,in the State of Missourhhave to'fill up the the inside of space between the corn-cob and the bowl, and thus prevent the suction of air between the corn-cob and inside of the bowl. The band,being elastic also, will expand as the corn-cob contracts or shrinks by 5 5 the action of the heat upon it. I know that there have been pipes made with corn-cob linings, but they would not operate, because as soon as the cob would begin to dry out it would permit the suction of air between the cob and the inside of the bowl, and it would then-fail to draw. The introduction of the elastic band C efl'ectually overcomes this difficulty, for it expands as the corn-cob contracts. By this constructiona pipe can be made of the costliest or softest material' and be provided with an absorbent lining, which is cheap and which can be used awhile until saturated with nicotine, and then taken out and thrown 7 away and anothersul)stitnted,and the smoker will always have a perfectly sweet pipe, free from the effects of the poisonous nicotine. A pipe thus constructed is cheap, can be easily and cheaply cleansed and have the lining re- 7 placed with a ne and fresh lining at any time, and the bowl or outside of the pipe can be made of cheap or costly material, as is desired, and highly ornamented without danger of damage from heat or coloring from nicotine. The corn-cob is cut on a bevel, so that the outside of the corn-cobgrzuluall y tapers from the top to the bottom, and the inside of the bowl is made to gradually taper from the top to the bottom on the inside, so that the taper .of th'einside of thebowl will be always considerably less than the taper of the outside of the corn-cob, which construction makes the space between the outside of the corn-cob and Tobacco-Pipes, of which the following is a specification. My invention consists ofa tobacco-pipe hav- I' g a bowl, stem, and removable receptacle I made of corn-cob or some absorbent material and an elastic ringsnrrounding said receptacle, the bowl of the pipe having its inner wall difceptaele,'so as to allow the I started at elastic ring to be shrinks fromvuse it may be started nearer the top of the receptacle,the ring thus always operating to keep the aperture between the bowl and the receptacle perfectly closed and airlight.

:The object of my invention is to provide a l the band will eflectually fill up the space between the inside of the bowl and the outside of the corn cob, and thus prevent the suction of the air between the corn-cob and the bowl of the pipe,

The'accompanying drawings fully illustrate my invention, in which Figure I is a vertical section of my pipe with the corn-cob lining and elastic band. Fig. Ii. shows, by a detached View, the corn-cob lining and elastic band.

A in the drawings is a bowl and stem of a pipe, which can be made of any material, whether combustible or non-combustible, as the bowl is protected from fire by the liningli. This enables the bowl and stem to be made of wood or of any other combustible material and of material which will not absorb nicotine.

The lining'B is a corn-cob bored .out in the center and turned offon the outside and made to fit loosely in the bowl A. It is supplied with an elastic band, 0, which is placed around it above the air-hole in the corn-cob,aml it serves than it is at the bottom. This corn-cob will shrink asit is used, and,'being tapered toward the bottom, the elastic band may be started at V the lower end of the corn-cob and inserted into the inside of the bowl, and the elastic 9 band,being round,will roll up the corn-cob as it is shoveddown into the bowl of the pipe,

and as the inside of the bowl is on a less taper than the outside of the corn-cob li ing the further up it rolls on the corncob the tighter too the inside .of the bowl narrower at the top 0 it makes the corn'cob in the bowl. ject of cutting the inside of the bowl on a less taper than the outside of the corn-cob is to attain this very end-that is, to make the corncob tighter in the bowl the more it is shoved down into the bowl, and also to enable the band to be rolled up the corncob as the cob shrinks with heat while in use,while the corncob is always inserted level with the top of the bowl. By this movable elastic band and the taper of the corn-cob and a less taper of the' inside of the bowl the space between the inside of the bowl and the outside of the corncob is always kept perfectly closed and airtight at any stage of the shrinkage of the cob, and enables the user of the pipe to easily insert or detach the corn-cob.

I know that a detachable nicerschauni center orcup has been used in the bowl of a pipe and that the inside of the bowl of the pipe has been provided with cork to prevent the air from passing down between the bowl and The ob-l the inside meerschauin lining; but this cork is set in the inside of the bowl and is not movable, as mine is, and will not take up the shrinkage of the corn-cob, because it cannot bc nnoved up the corn-cob, as my elastic band can, but when the corncob shrinks awayby use it will allow the air to pass dowabetween the corn-cob and the inside of the bowl.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent, is-- The tobacco pip'e described, consisting of the bowl, stem, removable receptacle, and elastic ring surrounding said receptacle, the inner wall of the bowl and the outer wall of the receptacle being differently tapered, as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

XVILLIAM M. ECGLES,

Attest:

.l'. \V. COLLINS, .T. A. Monrm. 

